We have moved to a purpose built workshop Stirling, despite what Google says we are still open, also our telephone number has changed, see below.
I now full offer tonearm repairs following extensive training by John Nielson of Audio Origami fame, Linn Ittoks and Naim Aro’s are our speciality, but I work on just about any arm, and none have so far defeated me.
if you wish to discuss your repair, or any other questions please call on 01786-940020 or email
£7,500.00
The X-quisite CA (Copper/Aluminium) model features a pure copper coil which has been carefully matched with an advanced aluminium-wood sandwich-body to achieve most involving sound characteristics.
All X-quisite cartridges take advantage of the patented monobloc-ceramic transducer technology, which ensures supreme detail resolution and at the same time extremely natural sound.
Each X-quisite cartridge is handmade piece by piece and calibrated by Micha Huber personally.
BODY
The body is milled out of a massive block and its material is sonically carefully matched to the characteristic of the different models. Between tonearm and cartridge, a carefully matched wooden inlay balances the resonance-properties of the contact area.
STRUCTURE
The ironless coil-design of the X-quisite transducer requires a strong magnet circuit in order to achieve reasonable output voltage. It took us many prototype setups and listening sessions before we found the perfect solution to be a Neodym-Armco combination with special measures to reduce eddy current loss to an absolute minimum. The generator is entirely built into an aluminium-holder, ensuring the mechanical energy-flow between tonearm and transducer to be as direct as possible.
MONOBLOC TRANSDUCER
By combining various modern production methods, we found a way in producing smallest ceramic parts precisely and exactly according our preferences. By designing the cantilever itself partly hollow and with octagonal cross section, we achieve extreme high rigidity for the entire cantilever/coil-body unit.
DIAMOND
The micro-ridge diamond is exactly fitted into a cross hole of the cantilever and fixed with tiny quantities of a technical adhesive. Overall, the moving mass at the tracking point is with 0,8mg very low for an MC design.
COIL
The coil material – copper, silver or gold with high purity grade – defines the tonal characteristic of the different X-quisite models. The winding technology is specifically adapted to the ceramic coil-body.
PACKAGING
The X-quisite cartridge comes carefully packed in a wooden box, made of a walnut tree, grown in our closest neighbourhood in the Tösstal.
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